Re: [WWdevel] boxes (or other formatting) around problems

[Sam H. <sh...@ma...>]

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On Aug 18, 2005, at 14:45, Davide P.Cervone wrote:


>> On Aug 17, 2005, at 15:33, John Jones wrote:
>>
>>
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>>> Personally, I liked the way the boxes looked now.  To build this  
>>> in as an option, my suggestion is to add two variables to  
>>> global.conf, something like problemHtmlStart and problemHtmlEnd.   
>>> They would be inserted by beginproblem() and ENDDOCUMENT() when  
>>> displaying a HTML related mode.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'm hesitant to add more wiring between global.conf and the  
>> problem environment, especially if it requires adding to  
>> defineProblemEnvir in WeBWorK::PG. Could this be added to  
>> specialPGEnvironmentVars, since that entire hash gets passed  
>> through to the problem environment?
>>
>>
>
> I would be pleased to see a method of including these boxes in  
> general (right now, they are actually part of the problem file,  
> which is a sub-optimal solution from way back when I first started  
> using WW and didn't want to modify the system code any more than  
> necessary).
>
> How about having something like the hardcopySnippets and  
> screenSnippets hashes but for htmlSnippets, and make it available  
> to the problems in the environment hash?  There are several other  
> things that I would like to have available, but customizable, like  
> the wording of common instructions ("Use 'inf' for infinity and '- 
> inf' for negative infinity", or "Enter 'NONE' if there are no  
> solutions", and so on) that can be inserted into problems so that  
> they all have consistent wording.
>
> While this is extra wiring, it is only one extra piece, and any  
> additional items like this can piggyback off it.  Just a suggestion.
>

Sounds like a good idea to me. I've added this as a feature request  
in the bugzilla: http://bugs.webwork.rochester.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=817
  -sam

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